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The Arabic alphabet is no more complex than the Latin one. That's definitely not a good example.
by satellite2 4y ago
The Arabic alphabet is no more complex than the Latin one. That's definitely not a good example.
- jmyeet 4y agoArabic is cursive and usually but doesn't necessarily skip vowels in written form. A lot of Arabic words have the same 3 letter root (eg IIRC ktb for "book", "librarian" and others) and they're all written the same if vowels are omitted so you have to discern the meaning in context. Plus it has gender and case. Plus Modern Standard Arabic ("MSA") differs a lot from colloquial Arabic. So there is a lot of inherent complexity in Arabic. From a typesetting POV (both for the printed press and computers), Arabic's cursive nature is more difficult because the letters need to connect and the shapes can vary depending on what's next to them.